INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Tools, Clinics, Platforms: The Power of Debt

Hannah C. Appel, Anthropology, UCLA

Debt and Social Crisis in a U.S. Colony

César J. Ayala, Sociology, UCLA

UCLA Prison Education Program

Bryonn Bain, African American Studies, UCLA

What It Iz and the Beyond Bars Conference

Bryonn Bain, African American Studies, UCLA

Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime

Felipe Gonçalves, Economics, Emily Weisburst, Public Policy, UCLA

Ground Truthing Through Community Narratives

Silvia R. González, Urban Planning, and Paul M. Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Evidence of Expulsion: Documenting Eviction Rates for Research and Advocacy

Ashley Gromis, Sociology, Michael C. Lens, Urban Planning, and Kyle Nelson, Sociology, UCLA

‘Pintela, Que Yo Se La Coloreo’

Ian W. Holloway, Social Welfare, UCLA, Daniela Maldonado Salamanca, Red Comunitaria Trans, and Amy E. Ritterbusch, Social Welfare, UCLA

UC Extreme Sentencing Project

Grace K. Hong, Gender Studies & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Land, Livelihoods and Displacement in Indonesia

Helga M. Leitner and Eric S. Sheppard, Geography, UCLA

Community Experiences on Million-Dollar Blocks in Los Angeles

Kelly Lytle Hernández, African American Studies & History, UCLA

COVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los Angeles

Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens, Urban Planning, UCLA

Protest and Progress: South LA Since the Kerner Report

Paul M. Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis

Paul Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University

SA Smythe, Gender Studies & African American Studies, UCLA

Shared Horizons: Practices and Poetics of Transatlantic Abolition

SA Smythe, University of Toronto (formerly at UCLA) and Vanessa E. Thompson, Queen’s University

YOU ARE HERE – a homebound travelogue

Marike Splint, Theater, Film and Television, UCLA

Carceral Liberation? A Native American Prison Art Show

Tria Blu Wakpa, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA

INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Ground Truthing Through Community Narratives

Silvia R. González, Urban Planning, and Paul M. Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Evidence of Expulsion: Documenting Eviction Rates for Research and Advocacy

Ashley Gromis, Sociology, Michael C. Lens, Urban Planning, and Kyle Nelson, Sociology, UCLA

Land, Livelihoods and Displacement in Indonesia

Helga M. Leitner and Eric S. Sheppard, Geography, UCLA

Protest and Progress: South LA Since the Kerner Report

Paul M. Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

YOU ARE HERE – a homebound travelogue

Marike Splint, Theater, Film and Television, UCLA

INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Tools, Clinics, Platforms: The Power of Debt

Hannah C. Appel, Anthropology, UCLA

Debt and Social Crisis in a U.S. Colony

César J. Ayala, Sociology, UCLA

INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

UCLA Prison Education Program

Bryonn Bain, African American Studies, UCLA

What It Iz and the Beyond Bars Conference

Bryonn Bain, African American Studies, UCLA

Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime

Felipe Gonçalves, Economics, Emily Weisburst, Public Policy, UCLA

‘Pintela, Que Yo Se La Coloreo’

Ian W. Holloway, Social Welfare, UCLA, Daniela Maldonado Salamanca, Red Comunitaria Trans, and Amy E. Ritterbusch, Social Welfare, UCLA

UC Extreme Sentencing Project

Grace K. Hong, Gender Studies & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Community Experiences on Million-Dollar Blocks in Los Angeles

Kelly Lytle Hernández, African American Studies & History, UCLA

Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis

Paul Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University

SA Smythe, Gender Studies & African American Studies, UCLA

Shared Horizons: Practices and Poetics of Transatlantic Abolition

SA Smythe, University of Toronto (formerly at UCLA) and Vanessa E. Thompson, Queen’s University

Carceral Liberation? A Native American Prison Art Show

Tria Blu Wakpa, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA

INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH

Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Ground Truthing Through Community Narratives

Silvia R. González, Urban Planning, and Paul M. Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis

Paul Ong, Urban Planning & Asian American Studies, UCLA

Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University

SA Smythe, Gender Studies & African American Studies, UCLA

Carceral Liberation? A Native American Prison Art Show

Tria Blu Wakpa, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA